Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of...

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.

These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of...

Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home--and the power to get there--had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography filled with people and places we recognize and to which we are irresistibly drawn. Each viewing of a film stirs, in a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic...

Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home--and the power to get there--had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography filled with people and places we recognize and to which we are irresistibly drawn. Each viewing of a film stirs, in a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic...

In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.
The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as...

Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies.

Wie kommt es, da ausgerechnet Shakespeare, der dem durchschnittlichen Kinognger lediglich vom Namen her bekannt sein drfte, zu einem der wichtigsten und erfolgreichsten Drehbuchautoren der amerikanische Filmindustrie werden konnte? Und da - weitgehend unbemerkt - die Anlage von Wagners Tristan und Isolde in den Plots des film noir bis heute weiterwirkt? Elisabeth Bronfen betreibt ein originelles und spannendes cross-mapping zwischen Theater, Oper und Film und leistet ganz nebenbei einen gewichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung der durch diese Medien freigesetzten und als sthetisches Lusterlebnis...

Stanley Cavell ( 1926) ist ein Grenzgänger zwischen Philosophie,Kulturwissenschaft und Literatur. Seit seiner ersten Aufsatzsammlung"Must We Mean What We Say" hat er den Skeptizismus gegen alle Widerlegungsversuche durch die angloamerikanische analytische Philosophie entschieden verteidigt. Der andere Teil seines Werks besteht in einer engagierten philosophischen Diskussion der Dramen Shakespeares und der Schriften der amerikanischen Transzendentalisten, vor allem aber des Hollywood-Kinos. Cavells Grenzgänge zwischen Descartes, Freud, Heidegger, Kant, Rawls,Wittgenstein und den...

Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate.

Such cultural reflection is particularly poignant when it deals with America's traumatic history of war. The nation has no direct access to war...

Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate.

Such cultural reflection is particularly poignant when it deals with America's traumatic history of war. The nation has no direct access to war...